J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize
The J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize is a prize for theoretical physics that was awarded annually from 1969 to 1984 by the University of Florida (Center of Theoretical Physics, CTP) in Miami and is named after J. Robert Oppenheimer (who was responsible for the founding of the CTP was involved). It was endowed with $ 1,000 and a gold medal.
The first prize winner was Paul Dirac , who published the speech given in 1971 as The Development of Quantum Theory as a book (and was already teaching at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida ).
The prize was mainly awarded for theoretical physics, but the original award also mentioned mathematics, chemistry, biology and the philosophy of science. The prize was sponsored for several years by the theoretical chemist Alfred Sklar and his wife Olga. The initiative for the award came from Behram Kurşunoğlu .
Award winners
- 1969 - Paul Dirac
- 1970 - Freeman Dyson
- 1971 - Abdus Salam
- 1972 - Robert Serber
- 1973 - Steven Weinberg
- 1974 - Edwin Ernest Salpeter
- 1975 - Nicholas Kemmer
- 1976 - Yoichiro Nambu
- 1977 - Feza Gürsey and Sheldon Glashow
- 1978 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- 1979 - Abraham Pais
- 1980 - Richard Dalitz
- 1981 - Frederick Reines
- 1982 - Maurice Goldhaber and Robert Marshak
- 1983 - Victor F. Weisskopf
- 1984 - John Archibald Wheeler
Individual evidence
- ↑ B. Kursunoglu, Launching the Coral Gable Conferences on High Energy Physics and Cosmology, in Behram Kursunoglu, Stephan Mintz, Arnold Perlmutter (eds.), High Energy Physics and Cosmology, Celebrating the Impact of 25 Years of of Coral Gable Conferences, Springer 1997, p. 17
- ^ Dirac Receives Miami Center Oppenheimer Memorial Prize, Physics Today, April 1969, p. 127
- ^ Theoreticians Name Dyson As Winner of Oppenheimer Prize, Physics Today March 1970
- ^ Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize to Salam, Physics Today April 1971
- ^ Serber is recipient of the Oppenheimer Prize, Physics Today, April 1972
- ^ Weinberg awarded Oppenheimer Prize, Physics Today March 1973
- ^ Edwin Salpeter wins Oppenheimer Prize, Physics Today March 1974
- ^ J. Robert Oppenheimer Prize awarded to Nicholas Kemmer, Physics Today April 1975
- ^ J. Robert Oppenheimer Prize awarded to Yoichiro Nambu, Physics Today March 1976
- ^ Gürsey and Glashow share Oppenheimer memorial prize, Physics Today May 1977
- ^ J. Bell-Burnell, received the 1978 J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize, Physics Today April 1978
- ^ Abraham Pais wins Oppenheimer prize, Physics Today, April 1979
- ^ Dalitz receives Oppenheimer Prize, Physics Today April 1980
- ^ Frederick Reines wins Oppenheimer Prize, Physics Today May 1981
- ^ Oppenheimer Prize awarded to Goldhaber and Marshak, Physics Today, September 1982, p. 89
- ^ Weisskopf wins Oppenheimer Prize, Physics Today July 1983, p. 77
- ↑ M. Hargittai, I. Hargittai (Ed.), Candid Science IV: conversations with famous physicists, World Scientific 2004, p. 425